Crane

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10787345-B2
Application number	US-201716088528-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2017
Priority date	Apr 7, 2016
Publication date	Sep 29, 2020
Grant date	Sep 29, 2020

Abstract

A crane is disclosed, the crane includes detachable hydraulic cylinder including a head side oil chamber and a rod side oil chamber both to be connected to a control valve through a joint, in which a head side hydraulic detecting section and a rod side hydraulic detecting section are each provided to the hydraulic cylinder, and a connection state between the hydraulic cylinder and the control valve is determined based on a head side hydraulic pressure and a rod side hydraulic pressure in a period until a predetermined time elapses after supply of electric power to the head side hydraulic detecting section and the rod side hydraulic detecting section is started and an operation tool for hydraulic cylinder switches the control valve to a state of supplying hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic cylinder.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A crane, comprising:
a crane apparatus;
a detachable hydraulic cylinder to operate the crane apparatus;
a hydraulic circuit configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic cylinder, wherein the hydraulic cylinder includes:
a head side oil chamber;
a rod side oil chamber;
oil passages;
joints configured to connect both of the head side oil chamber and the rod side oil chamber to the oil passages;
a control valve configured to be connected to the hydraulic cylinder through the joints;
a head side hydraulic detecting section configured to detect a head side hydraulic pressure of the head side oil chamber; and
a rod side hydraulic detecting section configured to detect a rod side hydraulic pressure of the rod side oil chamber; and

a control device configured to determine a connection state between the hydraulic cylinder and the control valve based on the head side hydraulic pressure and the rod side hydraulic pressure in a period until a predetermined time elapses after power supply to the head side hydraulic detecting section and the rod side hydraulic detecting section and hydraulic fluid supply to the hydraulic cylinder are started, wherein
when the power supply to the head side hydraulic detecting section and the rod side hydraulic detecting section and the hydraulic fluid supply to the hydraulic cylinder are started, the control device limits the behavior of the control valve such that the amount of hydraulic fluid supplied to the hydraulic cylinder is less than or equal to a predetermined value by the time when the predetermined time elapses regardless of the amount of operation of a operation tool for hydraulic cylinder.

2. The crane according to claims 1 , further comprising:
an informing section, wherein
when it is determined that the hydraulic cylinder and the control valve are not connected to each other, the informing section informs of a poor connection between the hydraulic cylinder and the control valve.

3. The crane according to claim 1 , wherein
when it is determined that the hydraulic cylinder and the control valve are not connected to each other, the control device switches the control valve to a state of not supplying hydraulic fluid to hydraulic cylinder.

4. The crane according to claim 1 , wherein
when the rod side hydraulic pressure becomes greater than or equal to the head side hydraulic pressure by the time when the predetermined time elapses, the control device determines that the rod side oil chamber and the control valve are not connected to each other through one of the joints.

Assignees

• Tadano Ltd

Inventors

• Okamoto Toshihiko
• Maeda Yasuhiro
• Kawabuchi Naoto

Classifications

• F15B2211/8636

  Circuit failure, e.g. valve or hose failure · CPC title

• F15B2211/87

  Detection of failures · CPC title

• B66C13/20 Primary

  for non-electric drives (transmitting control pulses B66C13/40) · CPC title

• B66C23/82

  Luffing gear · CPC title

• F15B2211/7057

  being of the telescopic type · CPC title